Veljellinen huolenpito in action

[Festus]

sorry, en jaksa kääntää tätä vaan laiskana miehenä kopion. Eli tämä on jehovah's-witness.net palstalta...aika hirvee tapaus:

A GILEAD STUDENT FROM THAILAND

A young Thai girl who came to new York to attend the Gilead School in upstate South Lansing, New York, had a mental breakdown. Staff members pleaded with President Knorr to send her home by plane, under supervision. He adamantly refused and gave instructions to send her home alone, "the cheapest way possible." She was sent to San Francisco by train and had passage booked for her on a ship to Thailand.

Evidently suffering another breakdown, she jumped overboard. The ship circled but never found her in the shark-infested waters. The captain sent a radiogram to the headquarters in Brooklyn. The switchboard operator, Arthur Barnett, received the message and receptionist Russell Kurzen also learned of the tragedy. The distressing news was then relayed to several members of the staff. When Knorr heard that the news was being circulated among the headquarters personnel, he was furious. Both men were reprimanded, and removed from their positions for revealing the contents of the radiogram.

[...] There was no announcement at Gilead School or at Bethel headquarters about the incident. [...] The young girl from Thailand was never mentioned again.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchto ... -overboard

Onko kukaan tutustunut tuohon Four Presidents kirjaan?


Ja OT: Candcie Conti & co taitaa jättää lausuntonsa 28.5 eli varmaan kesällä tiedetään kuis kävi

THE FOUR PRESIDENTS, page 96

[Pehmoluopio]

Pakko sanoa, että suurin osa tapaukseen osallistuneista toimi oikein. Olen kuullut arvioita Knorrista, että hän olisi ollut poikkeuksellisen kylmäkiskoinen ihminen.

[loikkarisusi]

Pakko sanoa, että suurin osa tapaukseen osallistuneista toimi oikein. Olen kuullut arvioita Knorrista, että hän olisi ollut poikkeuksellisen kylmäkiskoinen ihminen.

Niin...mutta kuitenkin pyhän hengen valitsema, vai kuinkas se nyt menikään nykyisen käsityksen mukaan? Osa uskollista ja ymmärtäväistä orjaa?

[Pehmoluopio]

Knorr oli paljolti vastuussa siitä, että beeteliin tulevat sitoutuivat palvelemaan siellä neljä vuotta naimattomuudessa. Knorr oli äärimmäisen seksikielteinen ja sellaistakin on puhuttu, ettei hän kertaakaan harrastanut seksiä vaimonsa kanssa. Homoepäilyjäkin oli, muttei mitään todistetta sellaisesta.

The day before a D.C. was to start, the brothers were having trouble getting the sound system to work. They struggled with it all day and still didn't have it working by evening. Knorr in all his loving kindness said, "I don't care if you have to work all night. Have it working by morning." He then went off to have a good night's sleep. The brother who related this to me (he was there) seemed to be favourably impressed by the authoritarian manner.

Se, että Jehovan todistajien palkkaamat verikoirat heittävät Torninvartijan pois konventista ei ole mitään uutta. Ennen saattoi saada kepistä:

It seems that Covington talked about how they had to have those canes becaused a radical group was there to break up the convention. Rutherford had the canes handed out and told them all to go after the trouble makers when they started to disrupt the assembly. It seems that Knorr was a coward and ran when he got the oportunity to do so unobserved by Rutherford. Covington told the story years later to a researcher while he was DF'd and before he died. He never respected Knorr after that.
The 'cane' story is true, an uncle of mine was one of the goons, I mean ushers, that was issued a cane with a weighted tip to discourage hecklers. The hecklers would try to sit up front to cause as much disruption as possible. They would be cracked over the head and then frog marched outside where they could receive further doses of spiritual food.

Jehovan todistajat valmistautuivat siis ihan kunnon kylätappeluun!